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1945 American Pioneer Trails Association Pictorial Map of the Western United States
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Title
1945 (dated) 15.625 x 29.5 in (39.6875 x 74.93 cm)
Description
Publication History and Census
This map was created by Irvin Shope and issued by the American Pioneer Trails Association in 1945. We note cataloged examples as being part of the collections at the University of Texas at Arlington, the Kansas City Public Library, and the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. This map does not appear in OCLC.Cartographer
Irvin 'Shorty' Shope (1900 – November 22, 1977) was an American artist, particularly of the American West. Born in Boulder, Montana, at the age of nineteen he began working as a ranch hand and rode the range intermittently until the age of thirty. He received a degree in fine arts from the University of Montana in 1933 and began seriously working as a commercial artist in 1935, although he had received commissions before then. He died in Helena, Montana, having lived nearly all his life in the West. Shope was also one of the founding members of the Cowboy Artists of America. More by this mapmaker...